After an expensive refurbishment, the Canada Science and Technology Museum will be consigned for another generation to share an address with the strip malls and fast-food outlets of St. Laurent Boulevard, far from tourists, a major transit hub and any other national institution.

When faced with a problem, especially one that is alarming, it’s tempting to portray it in the simplest terms possible, to set aside the complex and confusing elements and frame our reaction and response quickly and absolutely. And so the rise of homegrown terrorists carrying out violent attacks on the very streets we travel in our daily lives, and our fight against them, has come to be portrayed as part of an ongoing war.

Mark Sutcliffe is inspired by the city, other runners, spectators and relying on the power of his own legs to get to the finish line of the New York City Marathon. There is no other event that matches the experience of travelling the five boroughs on foot through to Central Park and the finish line.